In the class of evils which the suffragist is content to tolerate, or
say nothing about, would be those which are incapable of evoking in
her such sympathetic pangs, and she concerns herself very little with
those evils which do not furnish her with a text for recriminations
against man.

Conspicuous in this programme is the absence of any sense of
proportion. One would have imagined that it would have been plain to
everybody that the evils which individual women suffer at the hands of
man are very far from being the most serious ills of humanity. One
would have imagined that the suffering inflicted by disease and by bad
social conditions--suffering which falls upon man and woman
alike--deserved a first place in the thoughts of every reformer. And
one might have expected it to be common knowledge that the wrongs
individual men inflict upon women have a full counterpart in the
wrongs which individual women inflict upon men. It may quite well be
that there are mists which here "blot and fill the perspective" of the
female legislative reformer. But to look only upon one's own things,
and not also upon the things of others, is not for that morally
innocent.

There is further to be noted in connexion with the female legislative
reformer that she has never been able to see why she should be
required to put her aspirations into practical shape, or to consider
ways and means, or to submit the practicability of her schemes to
expert opinion. One also recognises that from a purely human point of
view such tactics are judicious. For if the schemes of the female
legislative reformer were once to be reviewed from the point of view
of their practicability, her utility as a legislator would come into